William Clark Green Quotes
Every year it's one more step closer, and then at the end you get to the top and you fall back down. It's crazy.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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I don't like to sell my finest pieces.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.
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It's probably easier and cheaper to counterfeit hundred-dollar bills than it is to counterfeit Bitcoin.
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Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.
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My family is average. I didn't have a crazy life as a kid.
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I think you can't really beat Bob Marley, especially the stuff he was doing with Lee Perry. Just that kind of clubby and dark and crazy stuff, even with the Wailers... Some of the songwriting was phenomenal.
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We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.
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Human life is full of the play of samskaras - tendencies developed by repeated actions.
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Every year it's one more step closer, and then at the end you get to the top and you fall back down. It's crazy.
